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  • Clarke Award Finalists 2011

    From James Nicoll@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Aug 26 02:40:49 2025
    Which 2011 Clarke Award finalists have you read?

    Which 2011 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
    Declare by Tim Powers
    Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
    Lightborn by Tricia Sullivan
    Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
    The Dervish House by Ian McDonald

    Just the Beukes, the Tim Powers, and the Ness.
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  • From William Hyde@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Aug 26 05:25:26 2025
    James Nicoll wrote:
    Which 2011 Clarke Award finalists have you read?

    Which 2011 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
    Declare by Tim Powers
    Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
    Lightborn by Tricia Sullivan
    Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
    The Dervish House by Ian McDonald

    Just the Beukes, the Tim Powers, and the Ness.

    Only Declare. I've read it three times now.

    If anything it's made a little better by having read "Eminent
    Georgians", which includes a long essay on St John Philby.


    William Hyde

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  • From Michael F. Stemper@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Aug 26 22:51:18 2025
    On 25/08/2025 14.25, William Hyde wrote:
    James Nicoll wrote:
    Which 2011 Clarke Award finalists have you read?

    Which 2011 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
    Declare by Tim Powers
    Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
    Lightborn by Tricia Sullivan
    Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
    The Dervish House by Ian McDonald

    Just the Beukes, the Tim Powers, and the Ness.

    Only Declare.ÿ I've read it three times now.

    Only _Declare_ for me, as well. I remember absolutely nothing about it
    except that I had trouble maintaining interest. I don't appear to
    have a taste for Powers.

    --
    Michael F. Stemper
    Nostalgia just ain't what it used to be.


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  • From William Hyde@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Aug 27 06:23:58 2025
    Michael F. Stemper wrote:
    On 25/08/2025 14.25, William Hyde wrote:
    James Nicoll wrote:
    Which 2011 Clarke Award finalists have you read?

    Which 2011 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
    Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
    Declare by Tim Powers
    Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
    Lightborn by Tricia Sullivan
    Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
    The Dervish House by Ian McDonald

    Just the Beukes, the Tim Powers, and the Ness.

    Only Declare.ÿ I've read it three times now.

    Only _Declare_ for me, as well. I remember absolutely nothing about it
    except that I had trouble maintaining interest. I don't appear to
    have a taste for Powers.

    It's a very typical book for Powers, and I would think that if it didn't
    work for you, none of his work will, except possibly "The Anubis Gates",
    which is a little more of a romp than his other works. And is shorter
    than most of his later books.

    William Hyde

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